{"id":25469,"date":"2012-02-01T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=25469"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:28:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:28:16","slug":"urban-planet-urban-highway-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/02\/01\/urban-planet-urban-highway-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Planet: Urban Highway Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/02\/01\/urban-planet-urban-highway-removal\/i-84hartfordconn\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25470\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25470\" title=\"i-84hartfordconn\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/01\/i-84hartfordconn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/01\/18\/urban-planet-how-the-dutch-got-their-cycle-paths\/feature-urban-planet\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25153\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"feature-urban-planet\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/01\/feature-urban-planet.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"63\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/images\/line-grey-1pixel-600wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anthony Flint at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/commute\/2012\/01\/tricky-second-wave-urban-highway-removals\/897\/\">The Atlantic Cities<\/a> explores the expansion of urban highway removal across more North America centres and notes the cultural tensions that can flare when such a major piece of infrastructure is slated for demolition. Also worth checking out, the Atlantic Cities has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/commute\/2011\/11\/death-row-urban-highways\/411\/#slide2  \">slideshow of urban highways on death row<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Video from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zbislrtfrgs\">WorldScott<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><em>For more stories from around the planet, check out Spacing on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Spacing\/111174192229238\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Spacing\">Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0 Do you have an Urban Planet worthy article you&#8217;d like to share? Send the link to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:urbanplanet@spacing.ca\">urbanplanet@spacing.ca<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. 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Anthony Flint at The Atlantic Cities explores the expansion of urban highway removal across more North America centres and notes the<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/02\/01\/urban-planet-urban-highway-removal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Urban Planet: Urban Highway Removal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21759],"tags":[19256,4657,1154,10185,99],"class_list":["post-25469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-anthony-flint","tag-facebook","tag-north-america","tag-twitter","tag-urban-planet"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Urban Planet: Urban Highway Removal - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/02\/01\/urban-planet-urban-highway-removal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Urban Planet: Urban Highway Removal - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. 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